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I am a Senior Security Strategist in the Security Technology Unit
at Microsoft. My job is to explain to our customers how to run Microsoft
products securely, and to the extent that it is needed, help the product groups
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February, 2006

Reading List
Many people have asked me to put together a list of links to things to read that may help them become a security expert. I am not sure I can do that, but doing some reading is not a bad starting point. What you read out of this really...

This week I went to Dr. Edward A. Tufte's course on presenting quantitative information. Being a professional (yes, I know some people argue about the professionalism part) presenter I found this to be a reasonable way to pick up a few nuggets that might...

The other day an old issue came up again: how do we mitigate the threat of sensitive data in page files. Page files are basically an on-disk repository of data that was in memory but not needed right at this moment. The system will page the data to disk...